Glad you like it.
If anyone wants to check out another small-ish game or two, head over to Steam and grab Crash Time III (it has a few offroad segments, but mostly it's a free-roam style cop/detective game with missions/story mode. If you like it (which I'm sure you will), then you can also grab Crash Time II, which isn't quite as pollished as the first game (i.e. you have to press F5 every time you start a mission to enable the G25 or other gamepad), but if you can ignore that it's also very good.
The graphics and physics are very good, although there is no H shifter support or cockpit view. As Tom mentioned above, the most important thing is the fun factor, which is what these games have in spades. The cars are not licensed, but there are ones that resemble a BMW, Porsche, and Jaguar in the game from memory. There are a variety of other cars, even a go kart, tank, truck, etc. No Ice Cream van though.
Official trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTG64MpHRVU